About This Item

  • TitleWRQP calling
  • Call NumberWORK_0753
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryCaption: "WRQP calling--Inspector Francis A. Burns, acting superintendent of the police telegraph, tries out new two-way radio system at Brooklyn Police Headquarters. through transmitter, dispatcher can speak directly to 103 radio cars scattered all over the borough."
  • Date1947
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date stamped: Nov. 16, 1947; on caption: "Eagle staff photo." Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectPolice -- New York (State) -- New York ; Radio -- Transmitters and transmission -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.